Teams that won their city in the 48HFP or teams that have been award winners in multiple cities are invited to participate in the International Shootout during the fall. Teams get their instructions on Friday night by email and have until midnight on Monday to submit their film by mail. This year (2010) the teams […]
Category Archives: 48 Hour Films
What Just Happened?
One of the conditions that competitors in the 48 Hour Film Project must meet is the use of a line of dialog supplied to them on Friday night. All of the teams must use the same line (also the same prop and character) in their films. This creates some interesting conditions during the screening and […]
Robots, Love, Other Worlds
When a 48HFP team draws Science Fiction as their genre, all sorts of things can happen. When PizzaInfinity drew the card, well, this is what happened. Good work. We think this was a delightful response to one of the genre choices that many teams fear. Team PizzaInfinity: http://www.youtube.com/user/PizzaInfinity
Superhero, Spy, For Life!
In the summer of 2007, San Jose hosted its first ever 48 Hour Film Project. A number of highly entertaining films were made that year, but this one from the Smith Brothers topped them all. They drew “Spy” for their genre and they were asked to include the line “I feel a little embarrassed.” The […]
Each of us can become…
A More Perfect Yellow is available to each of us if we have the courage to dig as deeply into the soul — and soak every so lovingly in the fountain of geekyness, as Lucious Breckensted. This height is available to you. Do you want it… …badly enough?
Ohhhhh, I’m sooooooo scared!
One of the trickiest genres to draw in the 48 Hour Film Project is horror. It’s easy to get many of the devices of horror right, but to make a watchable and interesting film created in just a weekend is quite a feat. And of course the audience has see it all, so how could […]
One shot please!
I didn’t really get this one the first time through. I was lost in the inquiry of the story. Just WHAT are these people doing? When I looked again, I could see the genius emerge like a crab from beneath a protective rock. The sheer lifting strength it took to get this story to us […]
A Fable, a Culprit, and a Winner!
In the 2008 season of the San Jose 48 Hour Film Project, one of the more exotic genre choices was “Fable.” The team that made this movie drew it and needed to figure out how to use their best location (a Catholic Church in Alameda) to fold into such a story. Their cinematography and interesting […]
Love and Peanut Butter
In the first San Jose 48 Hour Film Project, the competitors were instructed to use peanut butter as a prop in their 48 hour movie. This led to assaults by peanut butter, atomized peanut butter being sprayed over the mayor, a death by falling peanut butter jar, and one of our favorites, the creamy spread […]
What’s worth watching online?
Did the world really need another WordPress.com blog? Perhaps not, but I’m using this one to aggregate mentions of online content that I like. There are several obvious suspects, and I’ll link to many of them right away. I think that as I build this content stream, I’ll find a bunch of other sources of great […]